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Future Planet | Pollution

Can we clean up forever chemicals?

Scientists at Sandia National Laboratories are working on a material that can absorb forever chemicals (Credit: Craig Fritz)

Editor's Picks

People walking through smog towards India Gate in Delhi (Credit: Getty Images)

Why we don't all breathe the same air

By Kamala Thiagarajan

A bristlecone pine in the White Mountains of eastern California (Credit: Getty Images)

How old can trees really get?

By Jared Farmer

Scientists studying teeth of Peruvian mummy (Credit: Getty Images)

The DNA viruses left in ancient remains

By Jasmin Fox-Skelly

A plane flying over a wildfire with the sun shrouded in smoke (Credit: Getty Images)

What if a rogue nation dimmed the Sun?

By India Bourke

Solar eclipses can be eerie to witness, often being accompanied by a change in the air temperature as the Sun dims (Credit: Getty Images)

Can an eclipse steer history?

By Richard Fisher

Extreme weather

The Texas Tree Foundation have launched a cool schools programme to plant more trees in lower-income neighbourhoods in Dallas (Credit: Kristy Offenburger)

Why heat is a 'silent killer'

By Cagney Roberts

Satellite image of Hurricane Dorian in 2019 (Credit: Getty Images)

What creates record-breaking hurricanes

By Lucy Sherriff

Wildfires are on the rise due to climate change, but blazes could also be pushing up temperatures long after they are extinguished (Source: Getty Images)

When wildfires reach the stratosphere

By India Bourke

Often it is not the number and intensity of storms that predicts how much damage a hurricane will do, but rather when and where it makes landfall (Credit: Getty Images)

The epic hurricane tug of war

By India Bourke

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